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Would love to start tearing tortise...Do you guys think it is a lucrative business to invest in and how long do it take for them to grow .

Thanks

Wasted investment. There is a parable in Benin that says that "no matter how sweet the meat of a tortoise is, you can never use it to serve a guest". Apart from native doctors and traditional worshippers, no other persons will intentionally patronise a "tortoise farm" .

You can do Snail farming

Unless you plan on starting a business centred around exportation of tortoise shell.

I hear it is widely sort after in Asia- e.g. Vietnam.

I don't know how regulated it is in Nigeria but I don't believe it is all that heavily regulated.

So, go ahead and start your farm and see where it leads. But you must do some more research before anything.

oz4real83:
Wasted investment. There is a parable in Benin that says that "no matter how sweet the meat of a tortoise is, you can never use it to serve a guest". Apart from native doctors and traditional worshippers, no other persons will intentionally patronise a "tortoise farm" .

You know they export the shell, right?

It is a bit expensive on the international market. So, why bother selling to voodoo priests eh?

Christistruth00:
You can do Snail farming

Why the option of snail? Is it because they both (tortoise and snail) have shells?

xreal:
Why the option of snail? Is it because they both (tortoise and snail) have shells?

They are raised in a Similar Way

xreal:
Why the option of snail? Is it because they both (tortoise and snail) have shells?

They are raised in a Similar Way

And Snail has huge demand here and abroad

Op, where are you going to stock your farm from? Instead, go into maggots rearing/production. Its very lucrative.

Christistruth00:
They are raised in a Similar Way

And Snail has huge demand here and abroad

Oh, ok. Thank you.